The 'Asian Collections' project, which started in 2013, is a large project dedicated to catalogue all Asian collections at Leiden University Libraries, i.e. the collections at the Arsenaal building of Chinese, Japanese and Korean, plus all Asian materials at the UB Witte Singel of the former Kern Institute. Together with the KITLV-collections, these collections will be merged into our future 'Asian Library'.

The East Asian Library has its own blog with background information on the Chinese, Japanese and Korean collections, detailed information on the most important databases in the field of Asian studies, and lots of other useful and interesting links for our library. You can find our blog through eastasianlibrary.wordpress.com .

The East Asian Library has a multimedia room with tv, video and dvd equipment where one can watch and listen to all the multimedia materials available in the East Asian collections. Use of the equipment is free of charge.

From a recent customer satisfaction survey and frequently asked questions, we at the library have noticed that you find remote access to our collections tricky. Here are three simple steps to get remote access to e-journals and databases.